The man who many knew as "Mr. Indiana History" will be remembered by friends, colleagues and his family Saturday at a memorial service in the Meadowood Retirement Community, 2455 Tamarack Trail.\nDonald Carmony, who passed away in early February at 95, was a professor emeritus of history at IU. He won two Sagamores of the Wabash and was the editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, where he worked for more than 24 years.\nCarmony began his teaching career 76 years ago at the University of Indianapolis when he was 19. He received his master's degree in 1931 and his doctorate in 1940 from IU. In 1939 he became part of the IU family as he began to teach at IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne. \nLowell Carmony, the late professor's son, said due to the amount of speakers and the arrangement of travel by two of the professor's granddaughters, it was difficult finding a time when everyone could get together. However, this was the right time.\nHistory professor James Madison, a close friend and colleague of Carmony, will speak at the service.\n"Don was more knowledgeable than any other person that I know of about the history of Indiana," Madison said. "He spent hours reading the primary sources. You knew because it came through in his research and his service."`\nThe memorial will begin at 2:00 pm in the Terrace Room of the retirement community. Former students and colleagues will give brief speeches. A reception will follow.\n\nA gift in Carmony's name should be sent to the IU Foundation, P.O. Box 500, Bloomington, IN 47402 with a memo on the face of the check for the IMH Second-Century Fund or to the University of Indianapolis, Advancement Office, 1400 E. Hanna Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46227 with a memo on the check to the Donald F. Carmony Scholarship would be most appropriate.\n
-- Contact Staff Writer Ryne Shadday at rshadday@indiana.edu.
